HTS tariff line · chapter 30
3006.10.01
Sterile surgical catgut, similar sterile suture materials (including sterile absorbable surgical or dental yarns) and sterile tissue adhesives for surgical wound closure; sterile laminaria and sterile laminaria tents; sterile absorbable surgical or dental hemostatics; sterile surgical or dental adhesion barriers, whether or not absorbable
Analysis
HTS 3006.10.01 covers sterile surgical catgut, similar sterile suture materials (including sterile absorbable surgical or dental yarns) and sterile tissue adhesives for surgical… under heading 3006 (pharmaceutical goods specified in note 4 to this chapter).
Within this group the rate runs from duty-free to 6.4%. Compared with 3006.93.50 (containing ingredients having nutritional value, in which starch or…), which pays 6.4%, a misclassification either way moves the duty by 6.4 percentage points.
Goods from countries without normal trade relations pay the column 2 rate of 40% instead of nothing, so origin decides between free entry and a 40% duty.
The normal trade relations rate here is zero, shared by about 93% of the 58 tariff lines in chapter 30, a useful check when a neighbouring dutiable line is a candidate. Chapter 99 measures such as Section 301 or 232 can still apply on top, depending on where the goods come from.
Census statistics map these goods to NAICS 339113 (Surgical Appliance and Supplies Manufacturing), an industry of 1,804 US establishments employing 93,937 people. That concordance is how imports of this line are compared with US output.
Neighbouring lines
| Line | Description | General rate |
|---|---|---|
| 3006.30.10 | Containing antigens or antisera | Free |
| 3006.30.50 | Opacifying preparations for X-ray examinations; diagnostic reagents designed to be administered to the patient: other | Free |
| 3006.40.00 | Dental cements and other dental fillings; bone reconstruction cements | Free |
| 3006.50.00 | First-aid boxes and kits | Free |
| 3006.60.00 | Chemical contraceptive preparations based on hormones, on other products of heading 2937 or on spermicides | Free |
| 3006.70.00 | Gel preparations designed to be used in human or veterinary medicine as a lubricant for parts of the body for surgical operations or physical examinations or as a coupling agent between the body and medical instruments | 5% |
| 3006.91.00 | Appliances identifiable for ostomy use | 4.2% |
| 3006.92.00 | Waste pharmaceuticals | Free |
| 3006.93.10 | Packaged with medicinal preparations | Free |
| 3006.93.20 | Containing over 10 percent by dry weight of sugar | 40¢/kg + 10.4% |
| 3006.93.50 | Containing ingredients having nutritional value, in which starch or other foodstuff predominates by weight | 6.4% |
| 3006.93.60 | In liquid form for oral intake | 0.2¢/liter |
| 3006.93.80 | Placebos and clinical trial kits containing other chemicals other than medicaments | 5% |